Lisa Zunshine is an American scholar of literature and cognitive science, who publishes in eighteenth-century British literature, comparative literature, film/media studies, and cognitive psychology. She came to the United States as a refugee, from Latvia, when she was twenty-one, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. She is professor of English[1] at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; a Guggenheim fellow (2007); and author or editor of twelve books, including Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012),The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (Oxford UP, 2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (MIT Press, 2022).